Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party is an inconvenient truth

He may not win many seats this fall, but his nascent political party is so far succeeding in its drive to be a disruptive force.

Maxime Bernier completes the application to formalize the People’s Party of Canada as a federal political party at the Elections Canada office in Gatineau, Que., on Oct. 10, 2018. The party became officially registered on Jan. 18. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

OTTAWA—By writing this very column I am playing into his hands. Whose hands, you ask? Those of Maxime Bernier, once a Conservative Party leadership candidate of some renown, now leader of the People’s Party of Canada. You see, Bernier is still finding a way to generate attention, be part of the political conversation, and appear to build his fledgling party.

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Unless Trudeau plans to be out on these streets, fighting against police brutality or in cabinet drafting legislation to curb police powers, his, and all the other white voices of his ilk, have no merit here.

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